by John Lucas | Jul 1, 2019
It’s July 1, three days before Floridians gather with their families and friends to barbecue, head to the beach and set off fireworks, to commemorate our nation’s Independence Day — the Fourth of July. But the first of July carries a different significance....
by Sarah Rumpf | Jun 29, 2019
Three years ago today, The Capitolist officially launched, as the site “for people whose business is politics.” The vision of our Publisher and Editor-in-Chief, Brian Burgess, was to combine original content with comprehensive news aggregation into a...
by John Lucas | Jun 28, 2019
Medicaid patients will have a new option for getting to a medical appointment under a new law that takes effect Monday. The law authorizes transportation network companies like Lyft and Uber, under state and federal Medicaid requirements, to provide nonemergency...
by Sarah Rumpf | Jun 28, 2019
New York City’s groundhog-killing mayor and Democratic Presidential candidate Bill de Blasio was already unlikely to win his party’s nomination, but his trip to Florida this week was an especially epic disaster. Struggling to get attention in an insanely...
by John Lucas | Jun 28, 2019
It was perhaps “the moment” of the two night Democratic presidential debate in Miami. California Sen. Kamala Harris confronted frontrunner former Vice President Joe Biden on his record regarding his position on racial issues and his recent comments defending two...
by John Lucas | Jun 27, 2019
Round one of the first debate among the Democrats seeking their party’s presidential nomination is in the books and, as expected, the reaction to the first half of the split debate in Miami is widespread and varied. The head of the Florida Democratic Party saw it as a...
Immigrant groups file challenge against Florida’s sanctuary city law 
The group that helped pass Amendment 4 appears to have done a… 
New poll gives hope to group pushing a marijuana legalization… 
Broward recount shenanigans: 46,000 Democrat votes… 
In Florida, shark attacks more likely than gator attacks, but… 